Bentley, Tenille: - "Tenille Bentley is an international award-winning conscious businesswoman, board director and global change agent. She is a transformative speaker, educator as well as an author of two thought-provoking books "Digital Consciousness and Emotional literacy for kids" and the Managing Director & Founder of The Emotional Literacy & Mindfulness Academy for Kids. She has been described as a contemporary thought leader, building a multi-million dollar social media company in under 2 years, she has been recognised by the Australian Prime Minister with 'The Australian Leadership Award' which is only presented to 20 people in Australia, she was awarded the 'Australian Financial Review Top 100 Australia's Women of Influence', State Finalist in the 'Telstra Business Woman of the Year', inducted into the Western Australian Women's Hall of Fame by The Governor and awarded the Top 3 Australian Institute of Management Excellence Awards. She founded The Emotional Literacy & Mindfulness Academy for Kids a global program that is teaching kids advanced skills in emotional intelligence from the ages of 5 - 9 years old. She began from a position of looking at the world, the damage we, as a human family are causing, the chaos, the violence, the fast-paced dopamine overdosed world of digital and how we are seeing our kids (our future caretakers of this planet) being handed all of this. When you take a look at the world it can be overwhelming to try and figure out where does one start with undoing this beautiful mess we created? Her answer was with children, aligning this with her love of neuroscience and the proven outcomes of early intervention. This formed the basis of The Emotional Literacy and Mindfulness Academy for Kids. Specifically focusing on ages 5 - 9 as the key developmental phase where we can make the biggest impact and imprint them with essential life skills and behaviours that assist them later in life."
Lea, Natasha: - "Natasha Lea, designer and illustrator was born in Perth, WA and began her life as a professional artist in 2012. As a self-taught illustrator, Natasha thrives on her complicated line work, black colour blocking and psychedelic colour pallet. Natasha works primarily with pen, ink, markers and archival watercolour paper. She is influenced by the world around her and childhood memories, therefore, inspiration can be triggered by anything at anytime. The trouble, Natasha finds is slowing down her thought process to create an image that tells a magical narrative. Natasha held her debut exhibition in 2012, at the Chrissie Parrott Arts Centre- "Laced". Comprising of works from each corner of her creative life such as, costume, bridal jewellery, puppets and illustration. This was a fantastic platform for Natasha to see which creative path to follow. Inspired by how well her illustrations were received, Natasha followed up "Laced" with two sell out exhibitions at KURB Gallery Northbridge, Western Australia - "self titled-Natasha Lea" in 2013 and "Dreamscape" 2014. In between solo shows, Natasha thrives in fine art group exhibitions, produces wedding gowns and customises collectable dolls. Natasha creates custom wedding gowns and evening dresses for people who cant find what they want in store or who want to feel more special and unique on their special day. Recently Natasha Lea created the beautiful ice-blue wedding gown for Fremantles MP, Melissa Parke for the designer, Velvet Sushi."
